Holtz Communications + Technology

The surging popularity of photo sharing, marketers’ desire to capitalize on those images for brand purposes, emerging technologies, and the law appear to be on a collision course.

Just as social media management company Venueseen opens an API designed to scoop up Instagram photos for use in a brand’s marketing efforts, a New York judge has ruled that two news outlets infringed on a…

I have long maintained that new media do not kill old media, but rather than old media adapt. Movies didn’t kill plays, television didn’t kill movies and the Web hasn’t killed television (for example), but each has adapted to account for the changes wrought by the newest medium.

The rise of digital content has led many to consign print to history’s dustbin. The steady growth of…

Windows 8 reviews are decidedly mixed. Some claim sales are disappointing, although StatCounter data suggests Microsoft’s new operating system has already surpassed Android as a Web client. Controversy has arisen over the Surface RT, with some surprised that the tablet won’t run legacy Windows applications (the Surface Pro, due sometime next year, will do that).

Most of the complaints about Windows 8, though,…

Update: This is a four-year-old post and things have changed in the HTML5 world. The post offers an HTML cheat sheet, but there’s a new (and accurate) one here. Thanks to Tadeusz Szewczyk for sharing it with me, so I could share it with you.

You have a smartphone and/or a tablet and you’ve loaded it with apps. There’s a whole economy emerging around…

(c) Can Stock PhotoThe weekend is upon us—but not before we wrap up the digital and social news of the week of interest to communicators. For the full list of items from which I draw these stories, dive into my link blog at LinksFromShel.tumblr.com.

If workers are bringing their own mobile devices to work—a reflection of the…